All language subtitles for Fantasia 2000

My very pleasant duty to welcome you
here on behalf of all the other artists

musicians whose combined talents went
into the creation of this new form of

entertainment, Fantasia.

What you will see on the screen is a
picture of the various abstract images

might pass through your mind if you sat
in a concert hall listening to this

music.

Now, there are three kinds of music on
this Fantasia program.

First, there's the kind that tells a
definite story.

Then there's the kind that, while it has
no specific plot, does paint a series

of more or less definite pictures.

Then there's a third kind, music that
exists simply for its own sake.

Now, the number that opens our Fantasia
program is music of this third kind.

You know, what's amazing is that many of
these musicians are playing for the

very first time.

Thanks to Steve Martin's two -week
Master Musician Home Study course.

More about that later.

Hello and welcome to Fantasia 2000.

It's been more than 60 years since Walt
Disney and his artists teamed up with

maestro Leopold Stokowski to create a
film they titled The Concert Feature.

I think we're all glad that they changed
the name to Fantasia.

You know, Fantasia was meant to be a
perpetual work in progress.

Every time you went to see it, you'd
experience some new pieces along with

old familiar favorites.

But that idea fell by the wayside until
now.

So let me turn things over to the great
Itzhak Perlman, who, I have just been

informed, plays the violin.

Well, so do I. Big deal. Could I have my
violin, please?

Ah, thank you.

All right, boys.

Ho! Oh, sorry. Could I have another
stick thingy, please? Oh, and camera

me.

Camera back on me.

Am I done?

When you hear a title like Pines of
Rome, you might think of tree -lined

and romantic ruins.

But when the Disney animators heard this
music, they thought of something

completely different.

Here is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Maestro James Levine.

performing Ottorino Respighi's Pines of
Rome.

Hi.

Next, we're going to take you to the
streets of New York City for a piece

inspired by a couple of my favorite
artists.

First, there's the illustrator, Al
Hirschfeld, who's been drawing

and Broadway stars for most of the 20th
century.

And then there's composer -songwriter
George Gershwin, who took jazz off the

streets, dressed her up, and took it to
the concert hall.

My friend Ralph Gerson plays piano on
this next number.

And it all starts with a single slinky
note on the clarinet and a simple line

a piece of paper.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rhapsody in Blue.

Thank you.

Hi. You may not know this, but over the
years, the Disney artists have cooked up

dozens of ideas for new Fantasia
segments.

Some of them made it to the big screen
this time, but others, lots of others,

how can I put this politely, didn't.

For example, the Danish illustrator Kai
Nielsen drew these sketches for a

segment inspired by Wagner's Ride of the
Valkyries.

Here they are, and there they go.

Now, Salvador Dali, you know, the limp
watches guy, he got into the act with an

idea that featured baseball as a
metaphor for life.

How come that didn't work? Makes perfect
sense to me.

Let's see.

Then we had a bug ballet and a baby
ballet, and for a time, they even

a sequence inspired by the polka and the
fugue from Weinberger's Schwanda the

Bagpiper. But finally, a success.

The Disney artists wanted to create a
short film based on Hans Christian

Andersen's wonderful fairy tale, The
Steadfast Tin Soldier, but they could

find the perfect musical match until
now.

Here is Yefim Bronfman playing the
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 and

Steadfast Tin Soldier.

These drawing boards have been the
birthplace of some of the most beloved

characters of all time.

So it's no surprise that the artist
chose for our next segment, The Carnival

the Animals by Camille Saint -Saëns.

Here, the sensitive strains of
impressionistic music combine with the

artistry of the animator to finally
answer that age -old question, what is

relationship to nature?

Oh, sorry.

That age -old question.

What would happen if you gave a yo -yo
to a flock of flamingos?

Who wrote this?

Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to take
a moment, if we may, to talk about a

little something we like to refer to as
magic.

Picture this. You're at home hosting a
birthday party for your daughter, and

you've just shelled out 50 bucks so some
pathetic loser can pull a mangy rabbit

out of a flea market hat.

At first, you might wonder to yourself,
how did he do that?

But then you would probably just dismiss
it as some sort of a trick.

And you know something?

You'd be right!

It's just a trick. It's an example of
what we laughingly refer to as stage

magic. We're here to tell you that all
stage magic is a fraud, a hoax, a sham.

It's all based on deception and, yep,
lying.

All of it. Sleight of hand.

Lies.

Transformations. Fraud.

Dismemberment.

Ripoff. Fake.

All are illusions.

What we're here to talk about is real
magic.

We're going to bring out a guy now who
is the real deal, the genuine article.

fact, he taught us everything we know.

And he is featured prominently in the
next sequence from the original

The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

You know, come to think of it, The
Sorcerer's Apprentice is a little guy

never speaks and just kind of messes
everything up.

And now... And now...

And now, the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Thank you.

Congratulations to you, Mickey.

Thanks, Mickey.

When...

When we hear Sir Edward Elgar's pomp and
circumstance, we think of a graduation

ceremony.

Actually, Elgar composed it for many
kinds of solemn events.

This march inspired the Disney artists
to recreate the age -old story of

Noah's Ark with one slight twist.

Ladies and gentlemen, Pomp and
Circumstance, starring Donald Duck.

Walt Disney described the art of
animation as a voyage of discovery into

realms of color, sound, and motion.

The music from Igor Stravinsky's ballet
The Firebird inspires such a voyage.

And so we conclude this version of
Fantasia with a mythical story of life,

death, and renewal.

Camera back on me.

Camera back on me, please.

Anyone? Hello?

Hello?

Could someone give me a ride home?